The Scarf, The Activist & The Media

A Critical Analysis: Why NZ Herald's Keffiyeh Story On Davien Gray Is NOT What It Seems

When the New Zealand Herald published a story on May 2 2026 about a University of Canterbury student being asked to remove a Palestinian keffiyeh at graduation, it presented the incident as a civil liberties outrage worthy of national attention. The Press - Stuff’s Christchurch masthead, the city where this took place - ran the same story with identical…